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A new 911 Turbo S was set for production in 2010. It is a fully optioned Porsche 911 Turbo with a PDK gearbox and sports exhaust as standard. It also comes with re-engineered turbochargers to give an extra 30 horsepower increase to a total of 523 PS (385 kW; 516 hp).
Porsche has revealed a new special edition, the 2025 911 Turbo 50 Years. Based on the 992.1 Turbo S, it's a throwback to the original 911 Turbo of 1974.
The Porsche 930 is a turbocharged variant of the 911 model sports car manufactured by German automobile manufacturer Porsche between 1975 and 1989. It was the maker's top-of-the-range 911 model for its entire production duration and, at the time of its introduction, was the fastest production car available in Germany.
911 Carrera RSR Turbo with Gijs van Lennep at the 1974 Nürburgring 1000 km 1976 Porsche 911 2.7 The Carrera RSR 3.0 (911/74, 2,993 cc, 95 mm bore x 70.4 mm stroke, 315 PS (232 kW)) and Carrera RSR Turbo (911/76, 500 PS (368 kW) 83 mm x 66 mm, 2,142 cc engine, due to a 1.4x turbo-equivalency formula) were made in low volume for racing in 1974.
"US-spec 911 turbo comes with limited-slip center differential, like the rest of the world" - I don't believe that any 911 has a centre differential at all. The Porsche AWD system uses a solid drive to the rear axle, with a power-take-off to the front via a viscous coupling (most models) or a computer-controlled clutch (959 at least).
With PDK and the optional sport-chrono package, which includes the availability of an electronically controlled launch control and an overboost-function for temporarily increasing the turbo-pressure, Porsche claimed the 911 turbo would accelerate from 0–100 km/h (0–62 mph) in 3.4 seconds and attain a top-speed of 312 km/h (194 mph). The ...
2006 911 Carrera S engine bay 2007 911 Turbo engine bay 2007 911 GT3 engine bay 2006–2008 3.6 L (3,596 cc) 325 PS (239 kW; 321 bhp) 370 N⋅m (270 lbf⋅ft) water-cooled DOHC 24-valve boxer flat-six (VarioCam Plus) (Carrera/Targa 4)
The development work from the Turbo S LM-GT helped Porsche in creating the 993-generation 911 GT2 in 1995, which would be mass-produced and sold to racing customers. Some teams, unable to buy new 911 GT2s, developed their own twin-turbo racing versions of the 964 Turbo to mimic the Turbo S LM-GT, but lacked the success of the factory project.